Post on 23-Jan-2017
Unbundling (Your) Work: Our Careers in a Future of Robots & AI
Gary A. BollesCo-founder, eParachute.com
Partner, Charrette LLC
Careering Into the Future.What’s a career, in the age of exponentials?What’s work, in the age of exponentials?How are exponentials changing how we work?What’s “unbundling,” and why does it matter?What strategies do we need going forward - as
individuals, and as employers?
The Three Boxes of Life
The Three Boxes of Life
Education
Work
Leisure
The Three Boxes of Life
Education
Work
Leisure
Career
Career
So, what’s “work”?
So, what’s “work”?
Problems
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So, what’s “work”?
ProblemsTasks
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So, what’s “work”?
ProblemsTasksSkills
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Let’s talk about skills.
Let’s talk about skills.
Everything you know about skills is wrong.
What’s a skill?
Knowledges Transferable Self-Management
What’s a skill?
Knowledges Transferable Self-Management
What’s a skill?
Knowledges Transferable Self-Management
264 Transferable Skills
What’s a skill?
Knowledges Transferable
Self-Management
What’s a skill?
Knowledges Transferable Self-Management
What’s a skill?
Knowledges Transferable Self-Management
What youKNOW
What youCAN DO
HOWyou do it
What about “ability”?
Performance
What about “ability”?
Performance
Enjoyment
What about “ability”?
Performance
Enjoyment
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What about “ability”?
Performance
Enjoyment
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What about “ability”?
Performance
Enjoyment
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What about “ability”?
Performance
Enjoyment
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What about “ability”?
Performance
Enjoyment
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X X
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PerformanceFit
CulturalFit
PerformanceFit
CulturalFit
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What skills are prized now?
What skills are prized now?
What skills are prized now?
Intuitive
Analytic
Repetitive Adaptive
Intuitive
Analytic
Repetitive Adaptive
● Top down● Scale efficiency● Process efficiency● Excising creativity
The new arms race
Courtesy of Adafruit
Intuitive
Analytic
Repetitive Adaptive
Intuitive
Analytic
Repetitive Adaptive
Intuitive
Analytic
Repetitive Adaptive
● Top down● Scale efficiency● Process efficiency● Excising creativity
● (No top or bottom)● Scalable learning● Design thinking● Collaborative solutions
What’s most important today?
Knowledges Transferable & Self-
Management
What’s most important today?
Knowledges Transferable & Self-
Management
What’s most important today?
Knowledges Transferable & Self-
Management
T Skills
Your work
You and Your Work: A Matching Process
Your best-loved
skills & other attributes
Your work
You and Your Work: A Matching Process
Your best-loved
skills & other attributes
We’re entering into the era of
Self-directing
Self-optimizing
Self-organizing
We’re entering into the era of
Self-directing
Self-optimizing
Self-organizing
And this will change the job market. Forever.
The job market in the age of Exponentials.
The job market in the age of Exponentials.
The job market in the age of Exponentials.
The job market in the age of Exponentials.
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This is the problem.
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The reason? We’re unbundling work.
Understanding Unbundling.
Understanding Unbundling.
Understanding Unbundling.
Understanding Unbundling.
Understanding Unbundling.
Understanding Unbundling.
“Abstraction Layers”
Understanding Unbundling.
Understanding Unbundling.
How did industries become disrupted?
Understanding Unbundling.
How did industries become disrupted?
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Understanding Unbundling
Understanding Unbundling
Understanding Unbundling
Understanding Unbundling
Understanding Unbundling
Music
Magazines
Newspapers
Books
TV
Movies
Videos
Understanding Unbundling
What industry is next?
What industry is next?
What industry is next?
Unbundling Higher Ed
“[Schools should be places]...in which raw products, children, are to be shaped
and formed into finished products… manufactured like nails, and the
specifications for manufacturing will come from government and industry.”
Elwood Cubberley,Teachers College, Columbia University, 1905
“[Schools should be places]...in which raw products, children, are to be shaped
and formed into finished products… manufactured like nails, and the
specifications for manufacturing will come from government and industry.”
Elwood Cubberley,Teachers College, Columbia University, 1905
Dean, Stanford School of Education, 1917-1933
“[Schools should be places]...in which raw products, children, are to be shaped
and formed into finished products… manufactured like nails, and the
specifications for manufacturing will come from government and industry.”
Unbundling Higher Ed
Unbundling Higher Ed
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Gap Year(free range)
Gap YearProgram
TravelAbroad
Two-Year College
First Two Years Online
GapSemester
StructuredInternship
Nano-Degree
Four-Year College
LongDegree
Certificate
What’s next?
Transportation - chauffeured
Transportation - self-driving
Hospitality
Healthcare
Financial Services
How do exponentials affect these industries?
Exponentials evaporate the middle.
Exponentials evaporate the middle.
Exponentials evaporate the middle...
...Leading to a fat-bottomed world
Exponentials evaporate the middle.
Exponentials evaporate the middle.
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Exponentials evaporate the middle.
What about the economy?
What about the economy?
What about our jobs?
What about our jobs?
And what about those robots?
It’s not just skills and knowledges.
7 Characteristics of You & Your Work
For example: Preferred People Environment
Exponentials are unbundling work.
Customers
Exponentials are unbundling work.
Customers
What are the results…....For the employer?
Skills applied to tasks & problems as needed
Minimal commitment to worker
AND
Hiring challenges for top skills
What are the results…....For the worker?
Skills applied to tasks & problems as needed
Minimal commitment to employer
AND
Hiring challenges if you don’t have top skills
Wage compression
We are shifting from 3 Boxes...
Education
Work
Leisure
...to a lifelong model.
Strategies for the IndividualSelf-inventory - on an ongoing basis
Identify and drive toward interests/passions/purpose
Take full responsibility for your own learning
Develop collaborative skills
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Strategies for the EmployerIncrease emphasis on hiring for cultural fit over “performance fit”
Stop “up-skilling” job requirements
Design processes to involve workers in defining the problems to be solved - and in creating the solutions
Give workers autonomy and responsibility
Study “manager-less” companies
Take responsibility for creating an ongoing, dynamic learning environment
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